FCC has already gotten 2,000 “net neutrality” complaints
The Federal Communications Commission received about 2,000 net neutrality complaints from consumers over a one-month period, according to a National Journal article today. The overarching theme of the...
View ArticleU.S. Congress To Again Consider Private Right of Action for Trade Secret...
On July 29, 2015, with bipartisan support, congressional leaders in both the House and Senate, including Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Representative Doug Collins (R-GA), introduced a bill to create a...
View ArticlePeace, Love, and . . . Trademarks?
by: Robert Wagner, intellectual property attorney at the Pittsburgh law firm of Picadio Sneath Miller & Norton, P.C. (Robert Wagner on G+) In Juice Generation, Inc. v. GS Enterprises, LLC (Case No....
View ArticleLong-Term Care Planning, Part 2
Your Funding Options The first part of planning for long-term care is realizing that, a) most of us will need this kind of care for at least some time before we die and b) the cost of this care can be...
View ArticleAfter publishing secret spy docs, German news site investigated for treason
A well-known German political and tech news website has received (English translation here) a nearly unprecedented letter from the German Federal Public Prosecutor, saying that two of the site’s top...
View ArticleAmicus supporting rehearing in MTM v. Amazon
IP Professors, with excellent assistance from Cathy Gellis.http://tushnet.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
View ArticleCAFC analyzes stay requests in view of CBM review by PTAB
The background of this CAFC case relates to stays requested byApple, and by Samsung:Smartflash LLC and Smartflash Technologies Ltd.(collectively, “Smartflash”), patent licensing companies,filed...
View ArticleNew study shows Spain’s “Google tax” has been a disaster for publishers
A study commissioned by Spanish publishers has found that a new intellectual property law passed in Spain last year, which charges news aggregators like Google for showing snippets and linking to news...
View ArticleCAFC re-visits design patents in High Point Design vs. BDI
The outcome:BDI challenges each of these determinations on appeal.For the reasons set forth below, we reverse summaryjudgment of invalidity, affirm summary judgment ofnon-infringement, affirm the...
View ArticleThe Cold Reality of Our Favorite Frozen Treat Lawsuits
Julie Langdon Did you know that July is National Ice Cream month? To celebrate I decided that a perfect blog post is a discussion about ice cream and intellectual property litigation. So, this post...
View ArticleISPs: Net neutrality rules are illegal because Internet access uses computers
Internet service providers yesterday filed a 95-page brief outlining their case that the Federal Communications Commission’s new net neutrality rules should be overturned. One of the central arguments...
View ArticleAir Jordan Grounded in China
Michael Jordan is considered by many to be the greatest basketball player of all time. Beyond his five MVP trophies and six NBA championship rings, however Jordan also was the one of the most widely...
View ArticlePatenting Diagnostic methods
Interesting essay from Professor Eisenberg on patenting of diagnostic methods. The basic takeaway is that (1) eligibility limitations mean that new diagnostic methods have little chance of being...
View ArticleCriminal Copyright Infringement - 17 U.S.C. § 506(a) and 18 U.S.C. § 2319
The principal criminal statute protecting copyrighted works is 17 U.S.C. § 506(a), which provides that "[a]ny person who infringes a copyright willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or...
View ArticleSecond Oracle v. Google trial most likely to take place between March and...
Judge William H. Alsup of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has just entered a case management and mediation order in the high-profile copyright litigation...
View ArticleSomething to read? A couple more fresh titles ...
Secrets: Managing Information Assets in the Age of Cyberespionage, by James Pooley, is a very different kettle of fish from the same author's Trade Secrets, an 800-page blockbuster from US publishing...
View ArticleNew attack on Tor can deanonymize hidden services with surprising accuracy
Computer scientists have devised an attack on the Tor privacy network that in certain cases allows them to deanonymize hidden service websites with 88 percent accuracy. Such hidden services allow...
View ArticleCAFC reverses WDNC in Blue Ridge case; synecdoche not inherently ambiguous
There was a claim construction issue in SOCIEDAD ESPANOLA DE ELECTROMEDICINA YCALIDAD, S.A. v. Blue Ridge ; Phillips was cited:Claim terms are generally given “the meaning thatthe term would have to a...
View ArticleNewegg wins on "prevailing party" issue at CAFC
The CAFC analyzed "prevailing party" in Pragmatus v. Newegg :To the extent the district court interprets our precedentsto require a prevailing party to have won a disputeor benefitted from a...
View ArticleAppeals court: Actually, Newegg did win that case
Newegg is famous for fighting patent trolls, and the company is currently trying to win fees from several cases where it has won or the troll has given up. In one of those cases, Newegg fought a...
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